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View the Washington Post health care lobbyist flier

By: Charlie Spiering
Online Community Manager
07/02/09 12:04 PM EDT

Washington Post officials are scrambling to explain themselves after Politico chief political correspondent and former Washington Post reporter Mike Allen revealed that the organization was offering lobbyists access to key officials of the Obama administration.

"Underwrite and participate in this intimate and exclusive Washington Post Salon, an off-the-record dinner and discussion at the home of CEO and Publisher Katharine Weymouth. ... Bring your organization’s CEO or executive director literally to the table. Interact with key Obama administration and congressional leaders."

A source recently e-mailed a copy of what appears to be the original flier distributed to top lobbyists in Washington.

Click the thumbnail below for a full version

 

"Spirited? Yes. Confrontational? No," the flier states. "The relaxed setting in the home of Katharine Weymouth assures it."

Reporters Bill Myers and Kiki Ryan investigate further into the story and K Street Editor Tim Carney reports that the Washington Post recently closed its one time lobbying shop that once cost $10,000 a month.




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aceemily

Jul 2, 2009

Who's surprised? I can't wait to see how Howard Kurtz spins this one. Actually, the Post has a pretty good ombudsman. I bet she blisters Weymouth.

 

kiwikit

Jul 3, 2009

No word yet on how the state-run media is reporting this. I assume they'll pretend, like all dirt on this administration, that it never happened. How CAN anyone use them as a news source?

 

David Harkness

Jul 5, 2009

Thanks for posting a copy of the flier. Seems bizzare that it isn't posted all over the web. The information doesn't need to processed, digested, and analyzed. It's right there in black and white (and red and blue)--published by WaPo itself.

 


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